Monaco Quali: BMW Sauber Reactions

That is the usual

"Technically we had no problem... blah blah blah... considering this and that blah blah blah we are happy blah blah blah " comments from Thiessen!

I am more and more reminded of last year. Are we reverting to last year status? Where we were so happy to be 5 or 6 and if one of the top four had problems we could take something more? I am certainly not satisfied by this.

Whats happening with you asoft?
You are reactinng a bit too much.

You had good views before, now you are getting a bit carried...

Remember Mario now (since he got the BMW Sauber role, and perhaps before) does more PR than tech comments. Its Rampf the one charge of the tech stuff.

Be sure they aren't satisfied neither if we end up 5th and 6th.
BUT the race has not even started. We don't know which set up they are using (if wet or semi-dry or dry).

And I'm not satisifed too. Nick in 13th is really bad. But I analyze the circunstances, and how the race will evolve.

WIth 90% chance of rain in the race, quali means little really. I believe in Nick's master drives in the wet

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I am deeply disappointed and frustrated Jaime that is what happening to me. I am sick of having been promised more by previous performances and then falling back. It happened with Williams and I just can't stop thinking that it may have started happening with BMW Sauber as well. I just can't.

I agree that on a predicted wet race qualifying might mean nothing but this does not chane the fact that we have been off pace up to this point.

OK I may be overreacting but it is something coming out of my heart, my BMW dedicated loyal heart!

asoft one day we will be happy to.

I became very frustrated in the promised but not delivered Williams times (especially in 2004), but I'm realistic and I try to be cautious when analyzing why our team failed or succeed. Like what happened today.
I told you to wait till the race, and look what raing brought, a 2nd place for Robert!

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J-Raid
I became very frustrated in the promised but not delivered Williams times (especially in 2004), but I'm realistic and I try to be cautious when analyzing why our team failed or succeed. Like what happened today.
I told you to wait till the race, and look what raing brought, a 2nd place for Robert!

Problem is Jaime, it was not the car that made 2nd place possible, but Robert's skill. BMW looks like not making progress like some other teams. Maybe they will have a bigger update soon, let's hope ...

Yeah, definitely our car isn't at Macca's speed in dry conditions in the couple of races.

But I do think the car contributed a lot for today's result, so did the team strategy. So you cannot just blame for all

It is true that the team needs to wake up and work even harder in the car development.

Lets see how the car goes in a completely different track as Canada's

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J-Raid
I became very frustrated in the promised but not delivered Williams times (especially in 2004), but I'm realistic and I try to be cautious when analyzing why our team failed or succeed. Like what happened today.
I told you to wait till the race, and look what raing brought, a 2nd place for Robert!

That is exactly what does not satisfy me any more Jaime, winning places and points on other's mistakes or on luck. Because that is what happened today we took advantage of Ferrari's mistakes and we had luck. OK, it takes some skill to take advantage of these situations but still we are behind.

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J-Raid
Lets see how the car goes in a completely different track as Canada's

I am tired of being hopefull that the next race I will see something that will change my impression for the car. I really am.

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J-Raid
But I do think the car contributed a lot for today's result, so did the team strategy. So you cannot just blame for all

First of all there is no blame on anybody, it's just normal life that some teams will make progress faster than others.

In what way the car contributed, I can't find. Robert's and Mario's words confirm that.

The strategy was also regular, and if I'm not mistaken it was Robert's call (according to his word when he saw Glock on dry tyres making faster times) to make the change faster (not corfirmed tho). but nothing special there either. He was supposed to stop faster than Massa, so when he pitted he went for dry, like all of others at the time.

I think surely in today´s F1, the car make more than the drivers. The only thing that magnified RK´s impressive performance is Heidfeld´s drop in form, no, let me re-phrase it - free fall drop in form.

I am not saying that Kubica was not contributing to the successes so far ( he has been brilliant ), but a driver can only do so much. ( See how Alonso is doing in a Renault ? ) Let´s be clear, we are talking about 3 tenths difference ( qualifying ) between the top 3 teams. That´s clearly very little gap. A few years ago it would have been 1st and 2nd.

Its because we were spoilt by the first 3 races ( podiums ), and I keep on reminding this to myself all the time, that we are so disappointed at the moment.

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Let´s be clear, we are talking about 3 tenths difference ( qualifying ) between the top 3 teams.

If it is three tenths from the pole then you have chance to any position from P1 to P6 whilst if it is 3 tenths from P4 then your only hope is the lonely third team positions P5 and P6 . I don't think we are three tenths of second slower than the poleman.